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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-03
Extravaganza in College.


The very parents who speak so bitterly Of the
announcement given to young mems extrava-
gance by the modern college life have carefully
trained their sons for inst the life which they
have found. Usually men in moderate circum-
stances, they have never compelled their sons
to dollar in their lives. to know the cost
value of money. or to deny themselves any
thing within their reach. or to do anything except
spend money when favorable opportunity
offered The sons, passing for the first time
beyond the fathers eye, and able to plead cir
cumstances which parents cannot deny from per-
sonal knowledge. are in fair position to deplete
the paternal pocket-book, and have never
been trained to refrain from improving
such an opportunity. It is not for his
own selfish qualification that the son joins
this that college society, takes all the co.,
lege papers. or "goes with the nine co watch an
intercollegiate game in another college town,
does any of the other things for which his
father has to pay,-not at all; it is only because
he would be ostracized in college il he refrsined
from such indulgences Such the state
ments which accompany the periodical petitions
for checks; and the father. finding it easier to
curse college extravaganza than to take the
trouble of ascertainng tho true state of the
case. continues his mistraining of the boy by
paying his bills until, at the end of the college
course the son is turned loose upon the world,
to find at last what a dollar really means.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-03
A Familiar Character.


In april Hopes Mr.. Howells briu gs forward
another character familiar in society but gem
orally passed by noveists not affording ina
terial. that is, the unrefined mother of the re-
nned daughter. The curiosity exhibited oy the
mother as to the furniture of the house in which
she and her daughter are guests the desire to
nnd out all about the family with which she ia
TO De connected by marriage. which leads her TO
make a hasty inventory examination of the
rooms they occupy. distress the younger woman
ana amuse the reader. If the reader has had So
ciety experience or has been a close observer of
us Aino n more limited sphere
ne must have encountered this couple
frequently; the shrewd mother whose
shrewoness is always repeIlent and threatening
TO bring her plans to naug ht, the daughter refined
not only In bearing but in thought 1t is easy and
natural for the daughter love and honor the
notner but 1t is not easy for her to be at ease IN
ner company. Say what yon will it is hard for
the daughter, educate and refined not to give a
stara OF horror. not to show shade of mortfca-
t,on ever 80 evanescent. when the mother telling
tne story OF European trip, admits she waf
gao "nen the voyage was and once more
Sne set ner foot 'on terra Gotta again" Still
harder IS IL not to berray distress when the same
motner sorrowfully confesses that she did no.
ootaln an entrance into the highest London Sc
eiety, and declares. 81 guess those English foll
aio not know was y. L. Pettibone's wife-P.t-
aoones laundry starch, you know"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-03

shall placs,harn unon a we1rftted yacht that
shall be aipwrecked upon 20 island tnat Is nos
well knowIbut that exists--he eldest ooy 5 10ul
teen years ,f age the yom Tools to take care Of
themselves
AZ trust 70, will make he American boy
fine fellow"
~ always eye the Americans my best parts
| have profoud venera1on for the American
people. wansto see it huded as 1t deserves 10
sea sy ahe boy n the AS De
1.-TWO Years Ncationl-is to be the practlcsI
progressive boy G the party
In the hall that eads from the stairway 10 ,he
work-room, Is large chart or the worlo'A
planisphere upon vhich NJ. V'rne has traced In
lines Of different coors, Tbs voyages OF his
heroes.
amusing description oil the erths geography
The hisroriographr is rot great Traveller.
His voyages have ben "Voages Autour de Ma
ChambreS He madea TRIP to New ork In 1901
on the Great Eastern an saw the city and
Niagara Falls in a week forsooth! His Ameri-
can friends are like Atahams posterity, how
ever, innumerable as gfsis OF sand In the DESERT
and when the mail-carTr brought MS ietters To
him. volunteered to tnslate letters OF sym
patty from an incurse invalid, girl eleven
years old a boy at Broflyn public school No.
IL, young and old madame future great men.
To these letters hi always replies, though
trained to the wiIes of certain Marquis d. Aul-
nov who extorted augraphs by various pre-
texts and misrepresest tations for the purpose
of barter. Jules Vern is acquainted with the
coasts Of the great contries of Europe Tor be-
has lived some time auea IN his yachts. lie took
with him to Morocco,p 1875. poor Raoui Duval,
who was the apostle iFhe Chamber OF Depu-
ties of Droite Repu traine. and recently died.
His last yacht was ga some time ago 20 the
Prince of Montenegro. lt was a steam yacht
The first one was a fishman's sail-boat of eight
or ten tons. where Cd good Captain SerneC
cabin five feet bv siS was furnished with
vast cupboard con ainiE the books OF the yes
sci to wit: a few maine charts and three
four ponderous dictionSes and volumes of trav-
els The crew was coposed of two men, Alex
ander and Alfred one dwhon bad been through
the Crimean war the der IN New Caledonia.
Alexander and Alfredad perfect alteration
for Verne; only Alex nder never understood
how 1t possible II so perfect a man TO oe
tainted with so great afnfirmIty as-iack OF love
for fishing Jules Vrne is accomplished
pienist a poet a novelist, good critic, a dram
attic suthor. sailor: 10 49, TO quote hector
Malot good as goldr- alexander is right why
ia he not a fishermau2 ierfeciion is not of this
world.
We went ND the stairway to the Observatory,
wherein the romance liter sits TO think OF Fer
guson,- Hatteras. Clowhny, Plenarvan, Captain
Memo, and we lookd into the cities Amlenk
and Abbeville, with the winding. narrow lanes.
oddy-shaped roofs. tlfries. fingers of stone
pointing heavenward, aud tall. thin poplars,
Jules Verne spoke othis love for that land OF
America-the land of lrabian tales of the future.
that it is his best wisf to see and make known
to the world in his taleaux.
HENRI PENE DU BoIS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-03
Afrer the RattIa

Count Tolstoi, in Princeton Review.
Hundreds of bodies freshly smeared with blood
OF men who. two hours previous. had been filled
with divers lofty petty hopes and desires
now lay with stiffened limbs in the dewy flow.
cry valley which separated the bastion from the
trench and on the level floor of the chapel far
the dead in Sevastopol; hundreds OK men
crawied, twisted ana eroaned with curses aud
prayers on their parcned lips, some amidst the
corpses in the hower-strewn vale others on
stretchers, on cots, and on the blood stained
floor OF the hospital; and STILL as on the days
preceding. the rec dawn burned over Mt Sapun.
the twinkling stars paled, the white mist
spread abroad from the dark, sounding sea- the
red glow illuminated the East; long crimson
cloudlets darted across the bright blue horizon;
and still. as on days preceding, the powerful.
aii-oeauf,fui sun rose up, giving promise of joy,
love and happiness to all who dwell in the
world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-03
THE LITERARY CONVENTION.

rs Which being giren. oense can be took u
IL the local public was aware that city
entertained a very interesting literary conven-
ton during the past week. it has a very modest,
not to say bashful, way of showing it, as at no
time during the two-days' session of the associ-
alton were there more than bakers dozen of
outsiders present. Where, oh, where the
vast literary constituency of which We have
been won't to boast ourselves? Where
were the members of the Gentiemen's
Club the Woman's Club. the Fortnightly and
the numerous and sundry other literary bodies
whose coruscations and scintillations astonish
the community stated occasions. 1t is true,
It was June the weather warm, folk have
"gangen on pilgrimage" abroad, to the
seashore. mountain and other where; mu-
sical conventions and kindergarten fetes
impending Perish the suspicion that the base
ball games were counter attraction. Plymouth
Church audience-room had sparse sprinkling
of literati on front seats, but the vast back
ground of empty benches made the room seem
cooler; and the absence of local patron
age only aroused passing reflection
AZ to the stupidity of the general pub
lie. which doesn't know it has missed
a good thing until the golden occasion has float
ed bv The first preston of an unprejudiced
outsider was that the membership of the A. A.
". were mostly good looking folk We all
secretly of N. P. Willis's opinion-we "think
more of intellect when it is well housed" While
there were no professional beauties present
there was larger proportion of WEI modelled
feature and intelligent expression than usually
oraces a mixed assembly. The lawyer members
were without exception men of distinguished
nresence; the medical literati had the usual
nrominent and attractive DEMONSTRATIONS Of
their fraternity while the editorial and otherwise
journalistic brethren carried on their ttle-pages
that indescribable but always recognizable inner
1;oht of literary acumen which always obtains
for its ownor free ingress and front seats to the
hest that the world offer in the way of en-
tertainment. On the ladies' graces let me touch
With a trembling pen. In the matter of bright
earb and decorative appendages they are always
nossessed of advantages over the sterner sex;
and to mind prejudiced to believe that we'll
dressed woman is always pretty woman, there
is no field for personal Discrimination IN regard
to those present at this convention. Several
very pretty girls adorned the gathering; among
them those who wrote poetry and had con-
fessed it. and others who had every
surface indication that they could write
IL when they chose 10 put their minds to It The
surroundings were all favorably quiet and pleas
ant except that occasionally such unearthiy
noises arose on the outside of the building as to
create universal suspicion that some rival con-
vention, or some yearning but ineligible candi-
date for literary conspicuosity, had hired an
army of small boys to work IN a miniature soiier
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Funeral of Colonel Tal,nape.

ST. LOUIS, July 2-The funeral of Archibald
"a, iaimage. general manager of the Wabash
western railway system, was attended by an
IN nense throng of people. notwithstanding an
almost continuous rain. The remains were
lying In state at the residence from A. NJ. until
~ A Ms and were viewed by thousands Of
Irlenos and employees who bad come on special
Trains from nearly all points of the system. The
remains were surrounded by a few simple fora.
pieces, the more elaborate pieces beng ARA nged
In Ihe 1rand-avenue Presbyterian Church,
M Mnsrs the services were held. Rev. D. G.
HiaIquls, OF .ChicaPo. delivered the funeral
address, and DIR. Holliheld. of ST. Louis fol
t towea Inc remains were inferred at Belle
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-03
CHURCH MULES.
The Disturbing Qualities of the Church
Going Southern Negro.

The Interior
While they were not extensive readers, for OBJ
Southern States, in the vanished slavery days,
did fair amount of thinking, and generally
along entirely original lines. The result was
collection of short and pithy proverbs almost
any one of which suggested q lecture a sermon
to any lecturer or preacher capable of receiving
suggestion. We recall the following, which is
perhaps fair specimen of large assortment:
'Mule don't kick 'cordin to rule" aud in which
two negatives strengthen a negaton. Those
who have had enlarged experiences with regular
four footed mules can subscribe to the proverb,
and afhx their seals. Without intending to de-
liver lecture or q sermon. desire here
to record our unqualified belief, from
perience by means either blessed
happy. that we have in some of social
and religious circles and churches mules with
two legs who are just as good kickers, in their
own way, rs are the four footed mules: and
whose habits of kicking as to ways and times
quite eccentric and unfathomable
those of the other kind, and who will wait just
mischievous kicking They seem to kick when
they like it. If they have any other rule about the
matter they keep it to themselves that they
may be able to do moro efficient execution at
the right time. We have seen the recognized
church mule jog along quietly for months in
the church harness. pulling his share Of the
load and bearing his share Of the burden, and
sometimes more. and doing everything in such
a gentle aud genial way that, when looked at
him he seemed perfectly lovely, and we forgot
no mule-and full blooded one at that
In such cases it has always happened that when
there came an apparent opportunity for
putting in the most efficient kicking OF
hitting where he could hurt the most
and do the most smashing, the church mule has
proved true to his pedigree and his instincts,
and has thrown his heels around in all dlrec-
tions, hitting everything at which be aimed, and
aiming at everything within reach-pastor seq
sion. methods Of church work, and everything
else of the kind. We have known pastors and
churches killed dsad during two or three unex-
pected kicking spells Of . church mule, who had
waited in an apparently patient and orderly way
for his opportunity. And when he had done
his work and raised what he fatrered himself
was one of the biggest rows on record and was
through with his braying over it. have
known this Same church mule, soon as his
heels were fairly still, to come around among
the brethren looking AS innocent and sanity as
if he had been all the time making vigorous
preparation for death. and had succeeded to his
entire satisfaction. We have even known him
to stand the ruins of church, or of
prayer-meeting that he has kicked to death,
and lift up his voice in prayer for a revival.
Every church ought to kill off its mules sight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-03

manneo-out well manned-nobiy manned,
frooaeiy there was not Kentucky girl within
the sound of the speakers voice who did not
heartily approve that sentiment.
IF the people hereabouts are favored with the
little showers of the past two days as result Of
the prayers OF northern Illinois drought-suffer-
ers, what downpours might they not have en-
1oyed had they offered up few petitions on
their own account
IHE melancholy days have come. the hottest
of the year
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The melancholy days have come, the hottest
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without knowing now 1t was going to end.
He writes the plot, then studies the de-
tails. The results of his studies are in
notes of one word in columns, on sheets of
paper, letter size These words refer to books
IN his library or to other notes of ideas or facts
When he has become familiar with his notes he
writes the story. His manuscript is remark ably
neat, on the left side of 1etter-size page leav-
Ing wide margin a. the right for the dates. Ali
the datesl They give more trouble than you
can imagine. AND the namesI His proof read
ing costs good deal of money to the editor he
says. he sends the original manuscript TO the
printer without an erasure. and there are eight
successive proofs to be corrected by him. He is
fastidious in the extreme with regard to his style
that has to be absolutely faultless.
lie goes to bed at o'clock, gets up early and
is at work until midday. in his cozy work shop on
tie second floor, from which we saw a parade
and review by the division general of the whole
arm that gives them dash and light ,airiness
something that makes you feel that their heart
is in it, that they would throw it over an Oh
stacie a rider does, to make his horse lean
asked.
Fifty lires out of few pages of the Comta
de Paris's history OF the civil war in America.
The Compile de Paris and have always an,er
tanned pleasant. friendly relations and was in
sympathy with the North at the time of tha
war"
What material did you use9"
Everything and anything that I could find.
regret my Ignorance of the English LANGUAGE
have to trarslations and transla.ors TTS
story is interesting because it rests upon alihss
ana the key is at the end of the story bava
s sno.ner work under way. have thought that
Robinson Crusoe," Swiss Family Roh;n.o, y
The Mysterious Island The first Robinson :.
alone. the second has family the third ia a
1o ri,,nn OF enelneers men of learning. am
mere are eighteen Of them. Fifteen of than
are Gnghsn, two French and enc American. I
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-14
PROPOSALS WANTED.
CITY OF SAVANNAH,
OFFICE CRY SURVEYOR,
SAVANNAH, GA, Nov. 29th, 1887,
PROPOSALS

IL
viii be received at the Office of the Clerk of
Council until ~ M. December 14th, for paving
An average width of 40 feet of the roadway of
Broughton street, and curbng, from Abercorn
street to East Broad street. Length !, 604 feet,
number of square yards Z, 129.
Thirty feet of the roadway of Liberty street,
from West Broad street to Wheaton street,
and curbing Length 4726 feet, number of
square yards IL, 1854.
from Bay street TO River street, and curbing.
Length /, 1856 feet, number of square yards 5,27i
Thirty feet of the roadway of New Houston
street, from Whitaker street to Drayton street,
and curbing. Length $50 feet, number of
square yards I, 2662B.
Forty feet of the roadway of Bay street. from
the Savannah and Ogeechee canal to Wadley
street, and curbing. Length 457 feet, number of
square yards 2,O31 10.
Thirty feet of the roadway of Jones street,
from East Broad to West Broad street, and curb
ing. Length 1920 feet number OF square yards
1900
from East road TO West Broad street. Length
400 feet number of square yards ia, 400.
Bids will be received for asphalt blocks or
sheet asphalt. for granite or graywacke blocks or
for wood blocks.
No artificial foundation is required for stone
or asphalt blocks. For sheet sphalt the usual
concrete of broken stone and cement, from
three to four inches in thickness The curbing
of blue stone or granite, dressed down ten
inches on the face side ana four inches on the
inner side; four inches in thickness and equal
quantities of fourteen and sixteen inches in
width, and in lengths not less than five feet
Bidders must send specimens OF stone, asphalt
or wood blocks with their bids.
The city reserves the right TO reject any or all
bids.
For specifications apply at the office of the
undersigned. JOHN b. HOWARD,
ftxrC
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Few women want TO appear sick, and yet
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months from female weakness, and who
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Bids for a Bridge.
OFFICE OF COMMISSIONERS
-. T....e.w.. M ,,,,.... Ca.-..,,

AND Ex-oFFIcTo JUDGES CHATHAM County, GA,
SAVANNAH, GA, Nov. 30th, 1887.
CEAI.ED BIDS will be received at this office
- until O'Clock r. NJ, on THURSDAY, Dec
22d 1887, for rebuilding and keeping in repair
for seven years the Fort Argyle bridge, cross
ing the Savannah and Ogeechee canal, IA miles
from the city. Plans and specifications can be
seen in the Office Of the County Engineer City
Exchange Building. daily, between the hours Of
1870 o'clock and 500 P. NJ.
BY order of Commissioners Chatham County.
JOHN r. DILLON,
Clerk q. 9. G.
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a wonderful Food and Medicine.

OON1 e1I11
Known and used by physicians all over the
world. SCOTS Emulsion not only gives
flesh and strength by virtue of its own nu-
tritious properties, but creates an appetite
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have been using SCOTS Emulsion for seve-
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My patients say it is pleasant and palatable,
and all grow stronger and gain flesh from
the use of it. use it in all cases of wasting
diseases, and it is specially useful for chill
dren when nutrient medication is needed, as
in marasmus" 7. w. PIERCE, NJ. D.,
Knoxville, Ala.
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